uncharted 3 drakes deception

In a surprise reveal, Sony has announced 3 more titles are coming to the Playstation Plus Update June 11th. Check it out!

June 11th PlayStation Plus Update

UNCHARTED 3: Drake’s Deception (PS3) Single Player and Free to Play Multiplayer Bundle

PSN Price: This item is only Free for PS Plus members

The highly acclaimed single player campaign of Uncharted 3, along with the Free to Play Multiplayer Mode will be available for all PS Plus members to experience, free with their membership! A search for the fabled “Atlantis of the Sands” propels fortune hunter Nathan Drake into a desperate bid for survival that strains the limits of his endurance, forcing him to confront his deepest fears.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown (PS3)

PSN Price: $39.99, Free for PS Plus members

From the award-winning creators of Civilization comes an action-strategy game about humanity’s last stand. Threatened by an unknown enemy, Earth’s governments unite to form an elite paramilitary organization, known as XCOM. As the commander of XCOM, you must create a fully operational base, research alien technologies, plan combat missions, and lead your soldiers in fierce battles against a terrifying alien invasion. The decisions you make will affect the fate of humanity. You are our last hope.

LittleBigPlanet Karting (PS3)

PSN Price: $39.99, Free for PS Plus members

Sackboy returns in a completely new Karting adventure to save the Craftworld universe! Get behind the wheel to race through fun-filled tracks, battle in hectic arenas, and collect items in open-world environments. Compete in exciting mini-games and modes unlike anything you’ve seen, and enjoy endless levels created by the LittleBigPlanet community. From game modes to weapon types, never before has Sackboy had so many customization options. If you can dream it, you can drive it!

Overall, Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception is a good game with some minor flaws and gameplay that feels a bit dated. Its biggest problem is that it just doesn’t feel like an improvement over its predecessor.

Poor Nathan Drake, first he lost the Gouki.com GOTY to Batman Arkham Asylum in 2009, this year he’s up against Arkham City. Challenges of timing aside, Drake has another problem. While I can definitely state that Arkham City is an improvement over the already excellent Arkham Asylum, Uncharted 3 just isn’t any better than Uncharted 2. At least not in the story mode. The biggest campaign improvement over UC2 is the lack of weird, blue Sasquatch things as enemies.

The game has a good multiplayer mode with lots of variations in how to play. There’s your standard team death match (5v5), a free for all, and a cool 2v2v2 three team match. Plunder makes its return from the UC2 multiplayer. What’s new is the team objective mode where you do a best of 5 in random objective matches including king of the hill, turf war (like territories) and Marked man (similar to VIP in some other games).

Naughty Dog has again created a visual masterpiece, their level design always creates these really large, unique, and often stunning arenas for Nate’s story to take place. The cruise ship level from UC3 is an example of what great level design should be.

As pretty as the game is, Uncharted 3 lacks the control and choice that are the hallmarks of today’s best games. The game is very linear, never giving you the chance to solve something your own way, but it likes to give you an illusion of control avoiding many cut scenes by having the characters interact in real-time is great, but often in these areas the game doesn’t allow all your moves (you can’t even pull your gun out for instance) which kind of kills the drama of whether or not a bad guy is around the corner. On the other hand, if you see some waist high walls in the area, you know you’re going to see a gunfight soon.

There are certain types of enemies that require specific actions to take down. One is a “brute” who you can take down in hand to hand combat by countering his attacks. For some reason he shows up in many different places, even in the middle of a gunfight at the top of a castle. This lead me to try pulling my gun and shooting him mid-fight. To my surprise, the game engine allowed me to pull my gun out, but to my even further surprise, several gunshots to the face did nothing to this guy and I ended up KO-ing him with another fist fight counter. This, of course, made the fist fighting feel forced and tacked-on. It's still fun to fight, shoot, and climb in UC3, but you don't have as much freedom as you think and when you try to move out of the box you will be disappointed.

Overall, Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception is a good game with some minor flaws and gameplay that feels a bit dated. Its biggest problem is that it just doesn’t feel like an improvement over its predecessor. I’d suggest giving the multiplayer a try before dropping your hard-earned cash on this as the campaign probably wont pull you back in after you finish.

Drake's 3 is one of the games I want to play most from E3 2011. That's kind of a no brainer, even with it's cheesey one liners & odd voice acting. Why is it Drake is the only that sounds like he is actually alive & not just waiting to read his next line

Afer the Sony Press Conference I got to play a little bit of the Multiplayer and it's pretty sweet. What I really want to do is sit back and enjoy the campiagn though. I just recently played through both Uncharted's again and even after that I couldn't get my controller setting right and I was looking like a nuab playing at the Sony Press Conference. WTF is an X and Y axis?! Just do Inverted On or Off.

UNCHARTED 3: Drake's Deception™ E3 Trailer

You missed the coverage? Don't worry Jimmy! Gouki's got you covered! He's a quick run down of Sony's Press Conference! Check it out!

Sony starts off with Jack Tretton apologizes with the network hack. It's a gracious way to start off the press show. Ok, let's see some games!

They started off with Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception gameplay footage. It looks great and this story will a great one to handle.

Then they showed off Resistance 3. The HUD, looks like Resistance 1, meaning no regeneration health. And Resistance 3 is getting a bundle! Dubbed The Doomsday Edition, it'll included the sharpshooter, PS Eye, game, wand and nunchuck, all for $150. Deal?

Then the God of War Origins Collection, which consist of Chains of Olympus(PSP) and Ghost of Sparta(PSP), AND Ico and Shadow of Colossus collection BOTH on HD and 3D support.

New HD 24inch 3D TV for $499 with Resistance 3, HDMI and one glasses. The “cheap” way to get a Sony 3D TV.

Dust514 is a First Person Shooter exclusive for the PS3. There'll be a beta at the end of the year and will have a NGP version of the game, so you can connect with the PS3.

Bioshock Infinite will support Move and exclusive on the PS3, you get Bioshock 1 for free. There's also a new IP on NGP from Irrational Games.

Saints Row 3 will have exclusive content on the PS3.

A Star trek that will have 3D.

New SSX will have an exclusive level, Mt.Fuji.

Need of speed Run will have seven exclusive cars on separate blu-ray disk.

Battlefield will have a free copy of Battlefield 1943 exclusively on the PS3.

Then Kazou Hirai shows up on stage to show case Playstation Suite. Which seems to be a service like, Windows live, except it's for Sony Android and tablets. Hiro-san also confirms NGP as PS Vita and partners up with AT&T(I found this funny because some people booo-ed when announced). Suit is seems to be a social media interaction, but was scares on the information. Called, Party and Near will have cross game chat as well as other features, but it's too soon to say anything. The price for PSVita, $299 with 3G and $249 for WiFi.

Uncharted is shown on the PS Vita. Uses great render and lighting. Looks great looks pretty good. Touches the screen to use some jump mechanics but I don't see the need for.

Another game.. Ruin. Action RPG. Can connect to the PS3 version of the game.

Modnation Racer for PSVita. Touch it everywhere and create tracks twice as fast than the console version and the PSP.

Wipeout 2048 will launch for PS Vital. LBP Vita with tools from their big brother.

Yoshi Ono shows up on stage and shows off Street Fighter X Tekken Vita! Coel from Infamous, as a guess character for the game and only be available for PS Vita.

Followed by a montage, showed games with no titles.... I spy.... Shinobi? Samurai Warriors, Hot Shot Golf.

Coming this holiday season.... Crazy drums.... And it's over.

My thoughts... I enjoyed it. I give the edge to Sony, over Microsoft, because of the exclusive content they shown. But just by enough...

But what do you Jimmies think? Let us know and show your friends too! Don't be a Jimmy!